Justice reform
Suppose you have a house with a friend and that everyone has a place in the building.
Read MoreLe Pen and Santorum
The high votes obtained by the candidates from the extreme right in the presidential campaigns currently being conducted in France and the United States was astonishing. Last Sunday, in France, Marine Le Pen, National Front candidate, obtained 18% of the votes, well over 11% earned by Jean-Luc Mélenchon from the extreme left. While the winner of the contest was François Hollande from the Socialist Party (28% of the votes), the votes for Le Pen were very high and it converts her party into a major political player for the elections of 2017.
Read MoreNational pride
The Summit of Cartagena became a debate over the image of Colombia to the world. Did this event really improve that image? Naturally, there were two positions. The optimistic and pessimistic.
Read MoreDoubt and certainty bartered
A fundamentalist is someone who always accommodates reality to his beliefs and, because of that, is never willing to adapt its principles to the changes occurring in the world.
Read MoreMi friend Juan
The most beautiful definition of affection between friends I know I read it in Aristotle: “Friendship, says the philosopher, is a soul caught between two bodies.” Following the logic of this definition, when one of these bodies has a disease, the shared soul of the relieved friend suffers almost equally.
Read MoreThe good citizen
There was an Ecuatorian president whose motto was “Death to the Constitution and long life to religion.”
Read MoreThe two faces of hope
Hope is an ambiguous feeling.
Read MoreOil, schools, and swords
I’ve always loved the Hungarian proverb: “If your sword is too short, take one step forward.”
Read MoreWhat are the condemned for?
In 1757, in France, Damiens was caught after he tried to kill Louis XV.
Read MoreThe government and the unions: two opposing Antioquias
The fight is not between Bogota and Medellin, but between progressive and reactionary “paisas”. This short paper re-enacts the story of an Antioquia that punctuated progress and modernity in the midst of a prudish country, and the other Antioquia which has lately been at the forefront of the extreme right. Who will prevail?
Read MoreThe return of the Leaders
Without Chavez there can’t be chavism, without that one can’t be refoundation of the republic, without this one there can’t be security or economic growth.
Read MoreA law of precedent in favour of the equality and the diversity
Last wednesday, the Constitutional Court modified 42 articles in several aspects of the colombian legal system, in order to make equal rights and obligations for couples of the same sex compared to the heterosexual’s.
Read MoreEl Espectador comments the column “The Blindness of the Economists” written by César Rodríguez
Cesar Rodriguez’ column is reviewed as a discussion of the current global economic crisis in the article ” The economists crisis?”
Read MoreThe art of imitating
The countries, as people do, imitate others. Especially the great ones, the most powerful.
Read MoreIn a historic decision, the Colombian Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that same-sex couples must be granted the same rights as heterosexual common law marriages.
Unconstitutionality lawsuit presented by DeJuSticia, Colombia Diversa and others.
Read MoreThe blindness of the economists
¿How many economists saw the Global Recession coming, the deepest in our lifes? Practically No One.
Read MoreReagan And Obama
When we inspire in the past – Ronald Reagan said, refering to the people from the United States – is when we can live for the future.
Read MorePorcelain Dolls
The ideal image of the female body as a sack of bones is so spread, that there are already networks dedicated to promote Anorexia and Bulimia as a life style.
Read MoreThe enormous challenges of a good man
Since World War Two this is the first time the Unites Stated doesn’t have the capacity of imposing, that it had before.
Read More¿Individual Humanitarian Special Agreements?
Colombians want Kidnapped to be liberated. For that reason it would be logic for us to support the Government when it gives incentives for the Guerrilla members to scape with the kidnapped people, as the strategy has made some liberations possible. But the matter is not that simple, as the strategy politically risky and unstable.
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